Cultivator



' I. S. MUSSETTER.

Cultivator:

No. 242,6?8. Patented June 7,1881.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC S. MUSSETTER, OF OAKLAND, OHIO.

cu LTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,678, dated June 7,1881. g

Application filed April 4, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC S. MUSSETTER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Oakland, in the county of Clinton and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Cultivators; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, whichforms part of this specification, in which the figure is a perspectiveillustrating my invention.

My invention has relation to wheeled cultivators; and my improvementshave for their object to provide means whereby a straightline draft maybe always secured in the various positions which the beam may occupy.

My improvements consist in the peculiar construction and combination ofparts hereinafter fully described, having reference, principally, to thecombination, with the cultivatorbeam and a link by which it is securedto a swiveled axle-clip,of a system of levers,whereby as the beam isswung toward or from the tongue said link is correspondingly moved inorder to maintain the line of draft straight or parallel withlthe saidtongue.

Referring to the accompanying drawing, A indicates the axle, which isformed with an arch, A, to which the tongueB is bolted.

0 represents one of the journals for receiv ing the Wheels. Between thejournals and the arch, or on the straight portions of the axle, aresecured castings, (one of which is shown at D,) which form swivel-clipsor hinges. Said clips consist each of a plate, (I, with knuckles or eyesat (1, through which the axle passes, as shown.

E is a collar fitting between the knuckles, and made fast to the axle bya set-screw, e, the plate (I being notched at (1 to afford space forsaid collar. By these means the clip is swiveled on the axle and free tovibrate vertically. It is also capable of being adjusted toward or fromthe wheel, and secured against accidental movement lengthwise of theaxle when so adjusted. v

(ModeL) F represents a link, pivoted to the clip D at f and to the pointof the beam G of the cultivator at g.

H is a bell-crank lever, also pivoted to the clip D at h.

I is a long rod or lever, pivoted to the outer arm, h, of the bell-cranklever H at t, and to the beam G at 2", beside or close to the handle y.

K is a short link or lever, pivoted at one end to the link F at f and atits opposite end to the inner arm, h, of the-bell-crank lever at k. Bymeans of these connections a straight-line draft for the beam issecured, for whenever the handle g is pushed or pulled laterally, movingthe beam G out or in, as the case may be, the link F will becorrespondingly moved, thereby always keeping the point 9 of said beamwhere the draft is applied and the handle at the same relative distancefrom the tongue, the draft on the beam being always parallel, orapproximately parallel, with said tongue.

I have shown and described only one side or one half of the cultivator;but both sides are designed to be the same, the beams on either side ofthe tongue being movableindependently ofeach other, so as to bring themcloser together or farther apart, and to be lifted or depressed eitherseparately or together.

What I claim asmy invention is as follows:

In a cultivator, the combination, with the clip D, of the link F, beamGr,bell-crank lever H, rod I, and lever or link K, whereby the point ofthe beam is moved correspondingly with lateral movement .of the handleof said beam and a straight-line draft secured for the latterin everyposition, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this28th day of March, 1881.

ISAAC S. MUSSETTER.

Witnesses 0. W. SWAIN, ISAAC WORTHINGTON.

